Like Eric, I am a lefty. I forced myself to learn to use a paddle with my
right hand so I wouldn’t have to put the pencil down. One different thing I
did was to send DAHs with my thumb (ie. the “slow” finger”) and DITs with my
fore (ie. “last”) finger. What I have found is that my dominant
Gary,
Is there any chance that perhaps your firewall might be blocking the traffic on
that NTP port?
This thought was triggered by the fact that all your computers were having
problems. From what I’ve found on Google doing a quick search that NTP can use
port 123 (IMCP, which is also used
And my VFO B knob was discovered to have one at Field Day this year.
-rick, k7log
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Well, it may be OT; but it’s fun for this person who was 9 years old in 1954,
and his Mom took him to see his first sci-fi movie, which was Them”! I still
remember parts of the movie.
-rick, K7LOG
On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Phil Hystad phys...@mac.com wrote:
I have DVDs of almost all of
I would recommend trying MWSnap,
http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html
It is a screen capture program that triggered with a hot-key combo that you
can change. It has a number of different capture mode.
I use it all the time at home and at work for documenting how to use
programs since
Oops, I meant to say Best of all it's free.
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[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rick Commo
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 3:09 PM
To: 'elecraft'
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How do I print a spectrogram file?
I would
Hmmm... Given Elecraft rigs are such good CW rigs should we call the KX3 a
Walkie-Keyie? ;-)
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[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of hb9dco
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 2:02 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject:
Well, LiFePO4 is a much safer technology than lithium ion or lithium poly.
There are quite a few YouTube videos on LiFePO4. One interesting one in
which a big flat pack LiFePO4 battery is hacked with a sheet metal cutter
while it continues to operate. This is from Tenergy a manufacturer of a
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One would assume ( there's that word again) it would be jumpered for
120/240VAC as Elecraft sell worldwide.
Unless they do what I am seeing more and more of in equipment that comes
into my (work) lab. Switching supplies that handle 120-240V and 50/60Hz
with nothing to change.
-rick, K7LOG
I'll chime in here with the fact that I had problems with a couple of
USB-serial cable since I am running Win7/X64. I went to www.usbgear.com and
found one for $12 that came with Win7/x64 drivers. Seems to be working just
fine. Plus, when I sent their tech support a question I had the answer
tongue-in-cheek
Minor correction - 'Write a 'negative' comment on a new Elecraft device...
/tongue-in-cheek
;-)
73s,
-rick, K7LOG
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FWIW: Although the question was asked relative to 32 bit, I'll add that it
is working for me and another local ham on Win7 64 bit. Just in case anyone
is wondering. My computer is hooked to the K3 with a $12 USB-serial cable.
Cheers all,
-rick, K7LOG
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From:
Welcome to the fold Phil. I enjoyed our get together when you came over to
look at my K3. I am sure that you will enjoy as much as I enjoy mine.
73 Happy New Year,
-rick, K7LOG
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[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On
Martin, DM4iM wrote
Hello,
this is for the users of Firefox, it describes an easy and fast way
to download the Beta-Firmware from the elecraft-server using FTP.
After installation of FireFTP, an ADDON for Firefox, the latest
beta is only a few clicks away.
For people who might
Please give us a post-FD reply to this posting.
-rick, K7LOG
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[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of W5CEM
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 8:01 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] FD with K3's
Early
!!
Cheers,
-rick
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[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rick
Commo
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 9:22 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] [TFIC] Wish List item...
TFIC Tongue Firmly in Cheek
I would like
TFIC Tongue Firmly in Cheek
I would like to see the spot frequency changeable in 1 Hz increments. That way
I could set it to
523 which is only 11 cents lower than Middle C (523.25Hz).
For those of us who sing in choral groups, but who aren't blessed with Perfect
Pitch. Think of the
Thanks for the info Dick. I had never paid attention to the fact that it was a
recorder as well.
But I will put a plug into for it as nice piece of software in that you can
edit MP3s in a number of
ways and also (to a degree) speed them up or slow them down while keeping pitch
constant.
My
features I might find interesting.
73,s
-rick,K7LOG
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From: Don Wilhelm [mailto:w3...@embarqmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:17 AM
To: Rick Commo
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How to record Audio on K3
While Audacity certainly is a good
Well, usually stuff like vbrun300.dll is in something that Microsoft calls a
redistributable
package that developers can hand out with their programs.
Also, there are a number of sites that have various DLLs for download. For
example,
http://www.dll-files.com was one of the first that hits
For those who do prefer a two-side, color and bound manual one way to handle
this would be to take
the downloaded file and have it printed and bound at Kinko's/FedEx
While I have offered this idea I need to add the caveat that I haven't priced
their double-sided
color printing. I do know that
Don raises a very good technique that use frequently. In fact yesterday I
stopped by the place and
pick up a piece of 5/16 that was roughly 14 x 6 inches for the whole wallet
breaking sum of
something around $1.00. I was charged by weight, although sometimes they
charge by area as well.
For
Fran brought out some good points. Thanks you Fran. I'd like to take it a bit
deeper.
Technically Elecraft could develop a set of USB based rig control semantics
that allowed end user
programs (loggers or just simple rig controllers) to use the Windows native HID
(Human Interface
Device)
The KA7EXM Digital Power meter will go a long way to getting you fully baptized
in SMT. Plus you
will get a very useful piece of test equipment. It is available from Kanga.
Cheers,
-rick, K7LOG
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On Behalf Of Lyle Johnson
As for how long you can hold your breath in a vacuum, I refer you to Arthur
Dent.
73,
Lyle KK7P
Hmmm, very good point Lyle.
42,
-rick, K7LOG
Well, CW or Phone, to the recipients of help it doesnt matter. So in that
light I would like to pass along the following URLs and also an article that
a ham from my former club sent to the clubs reflector. Hope you enjoy
these. The main page of the AARL site has a nice list of stories to
All these envy posts about #5000! Gee, maybe it's time for a new bumper
sticker. Something along the lines of:
Just put #5000 down in the middle of the room,
back away and no one will get hurt!
Anyway, congrats to the happy owner. I looked at the serial tag on my own
K2,
I made a grand total of 3 contacts - all on 20M - all in the same state.
The QTH was home. The bands of interest all seemed pretty punk. Signals
were weak and watery.
I was tempted to take my N gauge train station; blow the dust off of it and
put it on top of the K2. But that seemed a little
Allen,
I believe that you are correct and figured that my XG1 had too much current
draw. I will do that as soon as I have the chance. Right now am just a bit
busy getting a couple of computers built up to replace some boxes that
recently went belly up. In a couple of weeks I'll be recuperating
Could someone with an XG1 please measure the battery voltage with the board
switched off and then the board switched on I need a reference point since
I have tried three batteries in mine and the yellow light always comes on.
My batteries were anywhere from 3.05 to 3.15 no load, but dropped to
Hmmm... Interesting, but perhaps Eletec is better since it puts the horse
in front of the cart!!! ;-)
Cheers,
-rick, K7LOG
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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 2:34 PM
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
The device is known as an MMIC or Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit.
It is essentially two transistors and the associated biasing resisters that
from medium to high gain with decent noise figure over a very wide frequency
range from low 10s of MHz up to 10Ghz in some cases.
They are made
I called Elecraft Service yesterday to inquire as to they buy that nice
heat-strippable wire for winding toroids. I wanted to get a supply of the
wire and also some toroids for various HB projects in the works.
While chatting with Richard I was given the following URL, which a lot you
might find
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